Air Conditioner Advice

[misterme]

My tennant has installed a new A/C unit. We bought all 6 units at the same time, but hers is the only one with any problems. Water is coming out of the Unit installed in the room.

12000 (or 12500) BTU

The compressor outside is far away, through my non A/C portion of the building.

When installed, they charged 8000B for extra pipes and pipe covers.

It's about 8 or 9 meters from the unit to the compressor, but the drain pipe is on the back of the wall that it is installed atainst...

I don't know if the drain pipe is taking any water, but by the looks of the water from the unit, I'd guess not.

I figure either:

the pipe the water is to drain from is not installed properly, or

the pipe from the compressor to the unit isn't wrapped properly

My friend has had the installers in twice (before I even knew of the problem)

They are telling her she needs to buy a bigger unit with more BTU.

That the equipment in her shop are overloading the unit. I told her this is untrue because she has the problem even when her equipent isn't even turned on.

Problem is I don't know about AC units. Can anyone shed light on this. Can't we just get someone to handle the water to drain properly to the drain pipe? or is it more complex than that?

[misterme]

Bump requesting advice....

thanks

[Naam]

They are telling her she needs to buy a bigger unit with more BTU. That the equipment in her shop are overloading the unit.

that's a big load of bullsh**! either the unit is mounted tilted (to the wrong side) or the drain pipe is blocked.

[Naam]

Can't we just get someone to handle the water to drain properly to the drain pipe?

yes!

[misterme]

Thanks. Seemed pretty obvious to me. Just wanted some confirmation

All 5 Thais believed it lock stock and barrel.

We'll try to get it sorted out.

[tjo o tjim]

Another possibility is that the humidity is just too high in the room, so the cold air causes water to condense when it enters the room. Parts of the inside unit will be the same temperature as the outlet air, but be downstream of the drip pan. Water spray can also come from these parts. This usually happens when there is a rapid change of humidity, opening the door for a few minutes, etc.

A bungalow we were renting had an AC unit that turned into an ice maker in de-humidify mode, spewing ice into the room. That should only happen if the controls are really screwed up, since coil temperature should only be about 10 degrees below dewpoint, maximum. My best theory is that the temperature sensor and humidistat are both located in the IR remote control, which couldn't see the unit...